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The Independent UK
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Lawyers urge leniency at sentencing for Ghislaine Maxwell

Ghislaine Maxwell Jeffrey Epstein Alison J Nathan Prison United States
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Lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell urged leniency at sentencing, asking a judge Wednesday to disregard a probation department recommendation of a 20-year prison term for her sex trafficking conviction and role in financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse of teenage girls.

They said in court papers in Manhattan federal court that Maxwell deserves leniency, and called it “a travesty of justice for her to face a sentence that would have been appropriate for Epstein.” Epstein took his own life as he was awaiting a federal sex trafficking trial in New York in 2019.

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